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APPLICATION FILED NOV- 8, I920.

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FLYING MACHINE.

APPLICATION FILED NOV. 8. 1920.

' Pawnted Feb. 21, 1922.

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NORMAN novna'ronr, or LONDON, 0310.

. FLYING MACHINE.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Feb. 21, 1922.

Application filed November 8, 1920. Serial No. 422,410.

T all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, NORMAN F. OvEn'rURF, a citizen of the United States, residing at London, in the county of Madison and State of Ohio, have invented a certain new and useful Improvement in Flying Machines, of which the following is a specification.

The object of this invention is to provide a machine of the heavier-than-air type that shall be capable of substantially vertical ascension and after which by means of propellers and shiftable vanes shall be capable of movement horizontally either back-ward or forward or in other directions as may be desired.

The invention is embodied in the example herein shown and described, the features of novelty being finally claimed.

In the accompanying drawings- Figure 1 is a perspective view of the machine, the steering nose being omitted.

Fig. 2 is a section on the line 11-11 Fig. 1.

Fig.- 3 is a section on the lineIIL-III Fig. 1. a

Fig. 4 is a top plan view of the guiding or steering nose.

Fig. 5 is a side view of the same.

Fig. 6 is a section on a larger scale of one i of the vertical tubes.

Fig. 7 is a side view of a reversible pro- Fig. 8 is an end elevation of the propeller partly broken out.

Fi 9 is a longitudinal sectional detail showing means for closing the tubes.

In the views 10 designates the platform or floor, the same being mainly of oblong form. Extending upward from near the four corners of the platform are large tubes 11 open at both ends and having their upper ends of upwardly flared or hopper form as seen at 11. permanent roof for the structure comprises the longitudinal part 12 and lateral parts 12 connecting the inner edges of the hopper-like portions. The outer longitudinal edges of the hoppers have hinged to them vanes or wings 13 that can all be simultaneously raised and lowered by means of rods 14: hinged to the wings an eccentrically to diametrically opposite points on wheels 15 secured to a rotary shaft 16 (see Fig. 2) extending machine. Hinged by means. of a bar 17 extending from the jun tion of the lateral roof d them when 4 shown at 36 and 37 and as sliding longitudilongitudinally of the portions 12 and the rear edges of the forward hopper-like upper ends of the tubes are wings 18. These wings 18 work between the wings13 and can be lowered from and raised to coincidence horizontally with said roof portions by means of link rods 19 and'20 hinged to an up-standing rod 21 hinged to the roof,'the link being hingedly connected to diametrically opposite points of a wheel 15 on the longitudinal shaft 16 (see F ig. 3) before referred to. of the rods 14 and 20 to the respective wheels 15 and 15 are such that when the shaft 16 is rocked in the proper direction the wings 13 are lowered to horizontal position and the wings 18 raised to that position simultaneously and conversely. The wings 13 and 18 when placed in horizontal pOSltlOIl serve as stabilizers.

The tubes 11 are equipped with lar e screw air propellers 22 having driving whee s 23 operated by belts 24 and 25 driven from a centrally arranged suitable motor 26. The lower ends of the tubes are somewhat flared and contain pyramidal members 22 in the apices of which the spindles of the screws are stepped. These pyramidal members are designed to cause a swirling of the air as it emerges from the tubes (see Fig. 6).-

Arranged suitable power. These propellers can be of the form shown in Figs. 7 and 8, that is to say the blades 28 can be axially rotatable and coupled with a sliding sleeve 29 by means of links 30, said sleeve being slidable on the propeller shaft by means of a rod 31 connected with a ring 32 in a groove on the I at the forward end of the may chine are suitable propellers 27 driven by a The connections sleeve and having an operating link, 33 so u that the blades can be given a quarter turn, more or less to cause the blades to reverse their action on the air and so driye the machine in either direction horizontally without reversing the engine. The operating rod 31 and the blades are locked in-the position to which they may be adjusted by means of a latch on said lever 33. The tubes 11 may be provided with dampers or shutters for closing or partly closing desired. These shutters are nally of the machine through slots 11 and in suitable retaining guides in the walls of the hopper-like upper ends of the tube. These shutters and their guides are shown as too N. F. OVERTURF.

, PROPELLER FOR AIRPLANES AND THE LIKE.

APPLICATION FILED FEB. 7, 132!- LQO'ZOSQ I Patented Feb.*21, 1922.

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